Lamentations 4
1 How is the gold become dim, Changed the best — the pure gold? Poured out are stones of the sanctuary At the head of all out-places.
ああ黄金は光をうしなひ純金は色を變じ 聖所の石はもろもろの街衢の口に投すてられたり
2 The precious sons of Zion, Who are comparable with fine gold, How have they been reckoned earthen bottles, Work of the hands of a potter.
ああ精金にも比ぶべきシオンの愛子等は陶噐師の手の作なる土の器のごとくに見做る
3 Even dragons have drawn out the breast, They have suckled their young ones, The daughter of my people is become cruel, Like the ostriches in a wilderness.
山犬さへも乳房をたれてその子に乳を哺す 然るにわが民の女は殘忍荒野の鴕鳥のごとくなれり
4 Cleaved hath the tongue of a suckling unto his palate with thirst, Infants asked bread, a dealer out they have none.
乳哺兒の舌は渇きて上顎にひたと貼き 幼兒はパンをもとむるも擘てあたふる者なし
5 Those eating of dainties have been desolate in out-places, Those supported on scarlet have embraced dunghills.
肥甘物をくらひ居りし者はおちぶれて街衢にあり 紅の衣服にて育てられし者も今は塵堆を抱く
6 And greater is the iniquity of the daughter of my people, Than the sin of Sodom, That was overturned as [in] a moment, And no hands were stayed on her.
今我民の女のうくる愆の罰はソドムの罪の罰よりもおほいなり ソドムは古昔人に手を加へらるることなくして瞬く間にほろぼされしなり
7 Purer were her Nazarites than snow, Whiter than milk, ruddier of body than rubies, Of sapphire their form.
わが民の中なる貴き人は從前には雪よりも咬潔に乳よりも白く 珊瑚よりも躰紅色にしてその形貌のうるはしきこと藍玉のごとくなりしが
8 Darker than blackness hath been their visage, They have not been known in out-places, Cleaved hath their skin unto their bone, It hath withered — it hath been as wood.
いまはその面くろきが上に黒く 街衢にあるとも人にしられず その皮は骨にひたと貼き 乾きて枯木のごとくなれり
9 Better have been the pierced of a sword Than the pierced of famine, For these flow away, pierced through, Without the increase of the field.
劍にて死る者は饑て死る者よりもさいはひなり そは斯る者は田圃の産物の罄るによりて漸々におとろへゆき刺れし者のごとくに成ばなり
10 The hands of merciful women have boiled their own children, They have been for food to them, In the destruction of the daughter of my people.
わが民の女のほろぶる時には情愛ふかき婦人等さへも手づから己の子等を煮て食となせり
11 Completed hath Jehovah His fury, He hath poured out the fierceness of His anger, And he kindleth a fire in Zion, And it devoureth her foundations.
ヱホバその憤恨をことごとく洩し 烈しき怒をそそぎ給ひ シオンに火をもやしてその基礎までも焼しめ給へり
12 Believe not did the kings of earth, And any of the inhabitants of the world, That come would an adversary and enemy Into the gates of Jerusalem.
地の諸王も世のもろもろの民もすべてヱルサレムの門に仇や敵の打いらんとは信ぜざりき
13 Because of the sins of her prophets, The iniquities of her priests, Who are shedding in her midst the blood of the righteous,
斯なりしはその預言者の罪によりその祭司の愆によれり かれらは即はち正しき者の血をその邑の中にながしたりき
14 They have wandered naked in out-places, They have been polluted with blood, Without [any] being able to touch their clothing,
今かれらは盲人のごとく街衢にさまよひ 身は血にて汚れをれば人その衣服にふるるあたはず
15 'Turn aside — unclean,' they called to them, 'Turn aside, turn aside, touch not,' For they fled — yea, they have wandered, They have said among nations: 'They do not add to sojourn.'
人かれらに向ひて呼はり言ふ 去れよ穢らはし 去れ去れ觸るなかれと 彼らはしり去りて流離ば異邦人の中間にても人々また言ふ 彼らは此に寓るべからずと
16 The face of Jehovah hath divided them, He doth not add to behold them, The face of priests they have not lifted up, Elders they have not favoured.
ヱホバ怒れる面をもてこれを散し給へり 再びこれを顧みたまはじ 人々祭司の面をも尊ばず長老をもあはれまざりき
17 While we exist — consumed are our eyes for our vain help, In our watch-tower we have watched for a nation [that] saveth not.
われらは頼まれぬ救援を望みて目つかれおとろふ 我らは俟ゐたりしが救拯をなすこと能はざる國人を待をりぬ
18 They have hunted our steps from going in our broad-places, Near hath been our end, fulfilled our days, For come hath our end.
敵われらの脚をうかがへば我らはおのれの街衢をも歩くことあたはず 我らの終ちかづけり 我らの日つきたり 即ち我らの終きたりぬ
19 Swifter have been our pursuers, Than the eagles of the heavens, On the mountains they have burned [after] us, In the wilderness they have laid wait for us.
我らを追ふものは天空ゆく鷲よりも迅し 山にて我らを追ひ 野に伏てわれらを伺ふ
20 The breath of our nostrils — the anointed of Jehovah, Hath been captured in their pits, of whom we said: 'In his shadow we do live among nations.'
かの我らが鼻の氣息たる者ヱホバに膏そそがれたるものは陷阱にて執へられにき 是はわれらが異邦にありてもこの蔭に住んとおもひたりし者なり
21 Joy and rejoice, O daughter of Edom, Dwelling in the land of Uz, Even unto thee pass over doth a cup, Thou art drunk, and makest thyself naked.
ウズの地に住むエドムの女よ悦び樂しめ 汝にもまたつひに杯めぐりゆかん なんぢも醉て裸になるべし
22 Completed [is] thy iniquity, daughter of Zion, He doth not add to remove thee, He hath inspected thy iniquity, O daughter of Edom, He hath removed [thee] because of thy sins!
シオンの女よ なんぢが愆の罰はをはれり 重ねてなんぢを擄へゆきたまはじ エドムの女よ なんぢの愆を罰したまはん 汝の罪を露はしたまはん
